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Black and White - $0.25/page
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WiFi - Free

Internet Access - Free

Faxing - Free

Your library card gives you access to materials from across the province! 

TRACpac

TRAC (The Regional Automation Consortium) is a partnership of Marigold Library System, Northern Lights Library System, Peace Library System, Yellowhead Regional Library, and their member libraries. Your library is a member of TRAC.

TRAC's shared catalogue, TRACpac, allows you to search the holdings of over 170 libraries with nearly three million books, DVDs and other material available for borrowing. With your TRAC card, you can borrow library materials, access eResources, place holds, and renew items through TRACpac.

Requesting Items Outside of TRAC

Relais is an interlibrary loan system allowing users to search for and then place holds on materials not available through the TRAC shared catalogue. Peace Library System staff then use the system to fill requests from libraries across the province. A video tutorial on how to use Relais is available on Niche Academy.

TAL Card

A TAL Card enables Albertans to walk into over 300 public, post-secondary and government ​special ​libraries across the province, borrow material, and return it to any participating library. The TAL card is the only program that allows cross-sectoral borrowing (such as a member of a public library borrowing from an academic library, and vice versa).

It is free to register for a TAL Card, which you can request from library staff at your home library. TAL Card users have access to the same walk-in borrowing privileges as local library card holders. Borrowed materials can be returned at any TAL member library.

Me Libraries

ME Libraries is the initiative which allows patrons to take their library card to any public library in Alberta that is part of the provincial network. Patrons planning on visiting a library and checking out a book in person can register to do so via ME Libraries. 

You can register via www.melibraries.ca, using your library card barcode and PIN. Once you are logged in, you can choose at which public libraries you would like to register. Once you have registered your card at another public library, your will be able to use that public library as any other local library patron. 

A list of participating libraries can be found on the ME Libraries website. 

Online Privacy and Access to Information Statement

Introduction

The Grande Cache Municipal Library is a networked member of the Peace Library System consortium.  This statement addresses your online privacy and access to information through the Library’s computer system (ILS), website and Wi-Fi.  Because the Library is networked with the Peace Library System, users should also become familiar with the System’s Online Privacy and Access to Information Statement.

The Grande Cache Municipal Library and its board and staff are subject to the Libraries Act, the Libraries Regulation, and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP), and uphold the CFLA’s Statement on Intellectual Freedom and Libraries.

The Library Board’s bylaws and policies are publicly available, including its Confidentiality of User Records policy, its FOIP policy, and its Internet and Acceptable Use policy.

Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information

The Library only collects the amount of personal information needed to conduct library services and programs.  Personally identifiable information contained in the patron record includes:

• Name
• Address
• Phone number(s)
• Email address

Patron records with charges below the defined threshold are purged after they have been expired for two years.

The Library does not collect personal information for commercial marketing or distribution to private organizations.  The Library will only disclose personal information:

• to law enforcement in response to a court order, such as a warrant, subpoena, or other legal compulsion.

• in partnership with other Alberta libraries and library systems for the purposes of sharing materials under conditions defined in existing resource sharing agreements and programs (e.g. interlibrary loan agreements, TAL Card, ME Libraries), collecting fees or fines, and retrieving borrowed materials.

• for the purpose of contacting next of kin or emergency response personnel in the case of an emergency.

Tracking and Security

External Links – the Library’s website links to other websites and eResources that may collect personal information.  Users should review the privacy policies of these sites before providing them with personal data. 

Encryption – the Library website links patrons to their My Accounts in TRACpac and TAL Online for borrowing purposes.  These consortia use encryption during the login process/transmission of a patron’s library card, username, and PIN. 

Reading History – Patrons can save their reading histories on TRAC and can create public or private readings lists on TAL Online.  These lists are private unless the patron chooses to share them, and the Library will not share these lists, except when in response to a law enforcement court order, such as a warrant, subpoena, or other legal compulsion. 

Web Server – The library’s website is externally hosted with Linode.  Users may refer to Linode’s Privacy policy. 

Wi-Fi and Firewall:  When connecting to the library’s Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi portal temporarily logs the IP address of the user’s device.  The library’s firewall does not gather personal information.

Cookies – When you visit a website it may deposit a piece of data, called a web cookie, with the temporary web browser files on your computer.  If you wish, you can change the settings on your web browser to deny cookies, or to warn you when a site is about to deposit cookies on your hard drive.

Parental Responsibility for Minors

Public libraries do not act in loco parentis. Parents and legal guardians read the Library’s Internet and Acceptable Use policy and take responsibility for what their children access on and through the library’s website. No age restrictions apply to the library’s databases, eResources or links to external sites, and the library’s computers are not filtered. 

Programs and Events

Online Forms and Electronic Communication with Library Staff – The Library may provide online forms for facilitating program registration or title acquisition suggestions for the library collection.  These forms will require some user personal information.  The Library will gather only the personal information necessary to facilitate the registration or request, and the personal information will not be used for any other purpose.  Personal information provided to library staff through any other electronic communications, such as email, text, etc. will be used only to facilitate the request submitted. 

Photographs – the Library may post photographs of its public programs and events on its website.  Attendees should speak to library staff in advance if they do not wish to have photographs of themselves taken and/or posted on the library’s website.

Social Media

The Library may provide access to social media.  Users posting comments to the library’s social media should be aware of the public nature of such posts and of their responsibility to exercise caution when sharing personally identifiable information over social media.

Grande Cache Municipal Library is located in the hamlet of Grande Cache in the MD of Greenview, Alberta. 

For more on the library, check out:

• Board of Trustees
• Careers
• Community Links
• Cruiser
• Donations
• History of the Library
• Mission and Philosophy
• Our Partners
• Policies, Plans, and Reports
• Staff Directory
• Volunteering Opportunities

There are no job openings at the library at this time.

Follow links to local organizations and our community partners:

• Hamlet of Grande Cache 
• MD of Greenview
• Grande Cache Tourism & Interpretive Centre
• Community Outreach Program Enhancement (C.O.P.E.)
• Grande Cache Community Adult Learning and Employment Resource Centre
• Grande Cache FCSS
• Grande Cache Chamber of Commerce
• Grande Cache, MD of Greenview Facebook Page
• Weather Forecast
• https://www.aseniwuche.ca
• https://mountainmetis.com

We are currently not taking any book donations. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Grande Cache Municipal Library accepts donations of used books. The criteria that we use to determine whether or not we can use them are as follows:

• no yellowing pages
• no torn covers
• recent

If we can not use items donated we ask your permission to place them on our book sale shelves.

Our Mission

The Grande Cache Municipal Library serves this community as an information center. By establishing and maintaining an organized collection of books and selected other resource materials, the Library provides opportunity and encouragement for continuous education as well as the enrichment of personal lives through recreational reading. Programs and services are offered by and through the Library to meet identified needs in the community and to attract Library patrons of all ages and interests.

Our Vision

The Grande Cache Municipal Library is a valuable asset to the community, promoting the quest for life-long learning.

Our Philosophy

• Library Association of Alberta - Statement of Intellectual Freedom
• Canadian Federation of Library Associations - Statement on Intellectual Freedom and Libraries
• The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions - Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom

Treaty Statement

Grande Cache Municipal Library acknowledges that we are on Treaty 8 territory—the ancestral and traditional territory of the, Rocky Mountain People, Cree, Dene, as well as the Métis. We acknowledge the many First Nations, and Métis whose footsteps have marked these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We recognize the land as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on.

Peace Library System (PLS)

In 1986, 21 municipalities formed a partnership that created Peace Library System. They believed access to library services should be equal and universal and wanted to ensure the patrons in small, rural libraries had the same high-quality library service enjoyed in larger, urban centres.

Working cooperatively with municipalities and public libraries, Peace Library System stays on top of the trends and changes in the library world to assist libraries in offering the best possible services to their patrons, and provides a means for independent libraries to work together in order to maximize value and minimize costs. Your library is a member of Peace Library System and benefits from its shared resources.

The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC)

TRAC is a partnership of Marigold Library System, Northern Lights Library System, Peace Library System, Yellowhead Regional Library, and their member libraries. Using TRACpac you can search and request items from a combined catalogue of over 170 libraries with holdings of nearly three million books, DVDs and other material.

The Alberta Library (TAL)

Created in 1997, TAL has grown into an award-winning consortium of over 48 member libraries in over 300 locations across the province that work together to promote barrier-free access to information, ideas, and culture. TAL's members include public libraries, regional library systems, university libraries, college and technical institute libraries, and special libraries. TAL supports and enables members' access to the technologies, licensing solutions, and related services necessary to better serve their users.